There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
GEORGE ORWELL
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
More George Orwell Quotes
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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The object of power is power.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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